Timothy Evans was an abusive drunk who beat his wife. So when he walked into a police station and said he’d strangled her to death, no one was surprised. But then came a twist no one saw coming.

Resources:

• Rillington Place: When did John Christie get caught? When did he kill his victims? The (very very grim) real timeline of the BBC drama | Radio Times
• Serial killer John Reginald CHRISTIE | The Rillington Place Strangler
• John Christie — The Christies — Crime Library
• John Reginald Halliday Christie | Research Starters | EBSCO Research
• ‘Christie Done It’ – The Last Words, Trial And Official Murder of Timothy Evans in 1950 – Flashbak
• Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
• Crimes of the Century: The Case of Timothy Evans
• https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/history/christie/evans_5.html

We conclude our look at the mysterious death of the Isdal Woman. Who was she? How did she die? And perhaps most mysteriously of all, what was she doing in the weeks before her death?

As we close in on the conclusion to this story, the mystery only deepens.

We continue our investigation into the mystery of the Isdal woman.

We dive deeper into the mystery of the Isdal Woman.

We continue our look at the bizarre death of the Isdal Woman.

It’s one of the greatest mysteries in true crime. A woman is found dead on a Norwegian hillside, her body badly burned. But how she died is only the beginning. Coded documents, multiple identities, and mysterious meetings have left us to wonder — who is the Isdal woman?

Resources:

• Isdal Woman: The mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years – BBC News
• The Unsolved Case: The Isdal Woman | by The Fig Files | Medium
• Do you remember this woman? – NRK Dokumentar
• 2017-interpol-isdalwoman-blacknotice.pdf
• Isdal Woman Life & Death: Norways Biggest Mystery by L. Robinson, Kindle Edition.
• Isdal Woman Identified? New 2025 Update on the Unsolved Mystery
• The Isdalen mystery – Dokumentar
• The Isdal Woman Cold Case: Mystery Over Her Identity Endu…
• The Unsolved Mystery of the Isdal Woman – Life in Norway

We conclude our look at the Chance Englebert case. Is it solved, and what can we learn if it is?

When a young cowboy goes missing in a sudden storm, his family is desperate for answers. What happened to Chance Englebert?

Resources:

• Chance Leslie Englebert – The Charley Project
• EPISODE 197: Chance Englebert — The Vanished Podcast
• Walmart video unable to confirm missing man sighting in Casper – Casper, WY Oil City News
• https://youtu.be/kqNe2gD2Cwk?si=HD7QUbtqhGMvs99n
• Missing: Chance Englebert | Terrytown, NE | Uncovered
• Gering Police release updated information in Chance Englebert investigation (starherald.com)
• Missing: Chance Englebert (youtube.com)
• Family fears the worst two months after Wyoming man Chance Englebert vanishes from Gering, Nebraska (nbcnews.com)

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